Truman Athletics
Kevin White

LOUISVILLE – Playing their first Great Lakes Valley Conference series against each other, the Bellarmine Knights took both ends of Saturday’s doubleheader over the Truman Baseball team. The Knights won the opener, 4-1, and took the nightcap, 15-2. The teams will conclude their series Sunday at noon, eastern.

Playing exclusively division games up until this season, the Knights and Bulldogs met only once, back in 2014 in a pair of non-conference games in Louisville until today.

Game 1 Recap:
Bellarmine’s Eddie Mathis pitched a complete game allowing seven hits and one run while striking out 11 Truman hitters in the opener.

The Knights grabbed a 1-0 lead on an RBI single in the second and added a run on a single in the sixth.

Holden Missey led off the seventh with his second home run of the season to cut the lead in half.

Truman stranded a one-out double by Ethan Kleinheide rin the eighth.

However, consecutive doubles by the Knights to start their eighth both came in to score for insurance.

Missey had two of Truman’s seven hits.

Game 2 Recap:
A big fourth inning propelled the Knights to the sweep as they scored eight times and took game two 15-2.

Bellarmine was up 3-0 after two before Kory Carter knocked his first home run of his college career with one out in the third.

The Bulldogs would add an unearned run in the fifth when Kleinheider walked, advanced on a pair of wild pitches and came home on a throwing error by the catcher.

The biggest blow in the game was a grand slam by Jacob Mulcahy in the eight-run fourth.